Even if the government gives us $20,000 to buy health insurance, premiums will likely increase by $20,000.
Now now, why would you only increase it by the amount the government will give you, you clearly dont have what it takes to be a CEO. If everyone would get 20k. Increase the price to 25k
Bingo. Socializing profits or whatever this is called…”neoliberalism” “private public partnerships” is exactly what destroyed everything good about western society.
This is just a roundabout way of subsidizing the health insurance industry while making his base think he actually did something for them.
No that’s the ACA. This is just peanuts.
Every subsidy that goes to a person basically is a roundabout way to fund an industry. Even tax write offs are. Like a mortgage interest rate deduction just helps banks and the real estate industry, not the people buying a house. The write off pushes housing prices up, since the banks can give out slightly higher mortgages to borrowers and the market adjusts to the bigger inflow of cash and supply doesn’t increase faster. If the write off didn’t exist people could borrow less but houses would cost less as well. This basically happened in my country the Netherlands. Nobody benefited from the introduction of the mortgage interest deduction except the banks and people who already owned a home when the policy was introduced.
My dudes, we have nothing to lose but our chains
How can there still RELATIVELY many people be able to have kids financially? The fertility rate in most european countries in comparison is lower, although we have affordable healthcare (well, compared to the US at least).
Why do you think they’re trying to shut down reproductive rights? They want people to have kids despite financial capability to raise them. As long as they survive growing up, they’ll labor.
And be raised by parents who don’t have any financial independence, ensuring they’re also in debt slavery for the rest of their lives.
Things feel so dystopian that I get the feeling that after they get everyone on debt slavery that they’ll put propaganda about how it’s unfair that debt is absolved on death and that your family/kids should pay for it. Fox News will be like: “why should a company’s debts just disappear? it’s unfair to the lender!”
Hey, someone is going to have to do all those below-subsistence jobs that the deported immigrants have been doing.
In an ideal world that’s what robots/AI would do. But we get the opposite; artists become unemployed whereas manual labor still continues to exist for humans.
Trump used to support a Canadian-style, single-payer health care plan. However, the closer he got to the presidency, the more he backed away from that. Funny how that works.
In other news most countries only pay 3 to 5% of their income for universal healthcare but sure we’ll see how Pedo Care works out for Americans
We get discounted 9% of our income every month in my south American country for a deficient health care system, so we have to opt for the private option for an extra 2% of discount.
Even with that you still pay less
The clinics are still expensive and they do all they can to keep the line going up, while the hospitals are collapsed
What country?
Wait… when the government gives people money… that sounds like… SOCIALISM.
This is to point out his hypocrisy, not even to note that this is a stupid way of distributing money (it just goes into the hands of middle men) and only intends to generate some good sounding news instead of actually solving a problem
I can’t tell if this is sarcastic, but I’ll respond the same way regardless.
This is not socialism. Government provided social programs or financial assistance are a basic function of governance. Virtually every government on Earth does this, whether democratic, authoritarian, or communist.
I think they’re playing by the conservative alarmists’ definition of ‘socialism.’
I would have to agree.
Brilliant!
Remember when they unveiled “the plan” many years ago? Huge stacks of paper, it looked very comprehensive indeed.
Of course, all the pages were blank. IT WAS TOP SECRET, YOU SEE, INVISIBLE INK!
Now, I’m wondering what was on the other 20K pages after the “$2000 credit a year” page. That was invisible. Eight years ago? Ten? I hate it here
ETA $2000 will be worth $20 by 2027. We should print more money to fix that!
Is he really just replacing like 6k+ valued ACA subsidies with 2k in subsidies that are implemented more stupidly
This plus the 50 year mortgages and I’m starting to feel relieved I’ll probably die before the real aftermath of this shit hits.
Thanks Trump! /s
Can we call it pedo care?
Worst health outcomes than their biggest adversaries, spending more than their biggest adversaries, crying more than their biggest adversaries… This is America and has been for a long time.
Thanks America for keeping us all down.
Oxymoron
He’s basically moving the money to the insurance companies, this is stupid.
That’s also what Obamacare does. It’s just that Obamacare is much, much better.
Wouldn’t it be better to subsidize the actual cost?
The health insurance plans will just raise their prices by another $2000
I wouldn’t expect anything else from a Trump Policy - everything he does is to feather the nests of his wealthy supporters. I guarantee this trump-care policy was suggested and supported by health insurers.
Of course. It didn’t change anything and it’s unrealistic.
This is the biggest lesson I’ve learned in adulthood. As a high schooler I said many things like “just go fix it”.
Problem is there’s always someone who will happily take advantage and ruin something that should be a good thing.
